The French bow maker Benoît Rolland has been named one of 23
recipients of this year's MacArthur Fellowship, a $500,000
no-strings-attached 'genius grant' from the MacArthur
Foundation.
Rolland trained as a violinist before studying bow making in
Mirecourt with Bernard Ouchard. After working as a bow maker in
France for 25 years, he opened his current studio in Boston in
2001.
In its award citation, the MacArthur Foundation highlighted
Rolland's experiments with new bow designs and alternatives to
pernambuco, such as carbon fibre.
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